CVE-2012-5656 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2012-5656

The rasterization process in Inkscape before 0.48.4 allows local users...

Vulnerability Description

The rasterization process in Inkscape before 0.48.4 allows local users to read arbitrary files via an external entity in a SVG file, aka an XML external entity (XXE) injection attack.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

inkscape, fedora, ubuntu linux, opensuse
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 16, 17, 18, 10.04, 11.10, 12.04, 12.10, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2

Timeline

Official Publish: January 18th, 2013
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.